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The Cat Who Traveled 200 Miles To Get Home
Caitsith.Zahrah
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2013-01-21 17:11:18
We know you don't, Pleebo.
/applauds
I kind of doubt it though.
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By daemun 2013-01-21 17:11:32
The one decent thread of the day, and someone has to quote it before it gets reported.
Shame on you FFXIAH.
They only reported him because he's an outspoken Republican on here. That what got this whole thing rolling.
/shrug I'm honestly surprised I don't get more negativity on here. My only saving grace is I try quite hard to always respond courteously with as much thought put into my rebuttals as possible.
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By Artemicion 2013-01-21 17:12:01
I propose a stickied Useless News thread.
At least this way we can share silly dumb things and not have to clog up the forum submenus and categories.
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By Leviathan.Catnipthief 2013-01-21 17:12:10
I wouldn't report him over something so trivial, but I don't know if he stopped posting news stories or he was stopped from posting more news stories. /shrug
pretty much this, are people really getting so butthurt over .... threads? really?
just don't post in them, simple as that, you bump them, you are just giving him what he wants.
Bismarck.Misao
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By Bismarck.Misao 2013-01-21 17:12:13
Holly seemed to be an average housecat; her owners, Jacob and Bonnie Richter, say she had an easy temperament and took to traveling well when they decided to include her on family R.V. excursions. But one day, something spooked her, and she took off through an open door 200 miles from home. The Richters posted fliers and organized a search for their pet, but she was nowhere to be found. Heartbroken, they returned home without her.
Two months and many miles later, Holly came back to them.
She’d been living with Barb Mazzola and her family in West Palm Beach for a short time after making the trek from Daytona, where she’d disappeared at the R.V. rally the Richters had brought her to. Mazzola said she found Holly barely able to stand, weakened, and with wounded paws. She cared for her enough to get her back on her feet, then took her to a local vet to be treated.
“I almost didn’t want to ask, because I wanted to keep her, but I said, ‘Just check and make sure she doesn’t have a microchip,’” Mazzola said.
Sure enough, Holly had been implanted with a chip, allowing the vet to find her true owners after a staggering two months. Now, scientists are puzzling over how she made the long journey on her own. While some say it could be that Holly learned to follow her nose–keeping the ocean to one side of her and the interstate on the other–one scientist thinks it could just be that Holly is a natural survivor. After being born inside an air-conditioner, the Richters say, Holly managed to crawl out and adopted them as family, bearing burn marks on her belly as proof of where she’d been.
“You’ve got these real variations in temperament,” Dr. Marc Bekoff, a behavioral ecologist, said. “Fish can by shy or bold; there seem to be shy and bold spiders. This cat, it could be she has the personality of a survivor.”
Whatever the reason, Holly is now safe at home with her family because of it.
Image: Barbara P. Fernandez for The New York Times
http://www.webpronews.com/holly-the-cat-who-traveled-200-miles-to-get-home-2013-01kitty!
Carbuncle.Skulloneix
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By Carbuncle.Skulloneix 2013-01-21 17:13:08
Is it really worth making a thread over something like this tho? The strippers were a quick laugh at least <,< Why not? And yah the strippers had a quick "hehe, ok next..."
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By daemun 2013-01-21 17:13:10
Is it really worth making a thread over something like this tho? The strippers were a quick laugh at least <,< I thought it was heart warming to hear someone's pet (family member to some) returned home after thought to be lost. After enduring plenty of obvious turmoil as well.
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By Aeyela 2013-01-21 17:13:24
Is it really worth making a thread over something like this tho? The strippers were a quick laugh at least <,<
These forums are entirely more fascinating for the existence of the off topic forum and threads like this one, in my opinion. I'm glad Terminus quoted the original post because I feel better having read it.
Valefor.Sehachan
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2013-01-21 17:15:02
I disagree with the reporting anyway, at least they're worth a read unlike kawarities.
Except maybe for the Obama one.
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2013-01-21 17:15:25
I dont report people because i feel most threads self-mod just fine but political alignment doesnt excuse bombing the forum with trivial ***. Make one huge thread or pick the most interesting ones.
This isnt Inside Edition.
By daemun 2013-01-21 17:16:13
I disagree with the reporting anyway, at least they're worth a read unlike kawarities.
Except maybe for the Obama one. Gearing BLU...GO!
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By Odin.Headstrong 2013-01-21 17:18:23
Well it's the kind of news you get when nothing important happens :< i rather read something interesting.. The only thing we're discussing in here now is why people consider it spam, cause there's nothing else to discuss about it ._. yay kitty i guess
Caitsith.Zahrah
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2013-01-21 17:20:01
I propose a stickied Useless News thread.
At least this way we can share silly dumb things and not have to clog up the forum submenus and categories.
Will celebrity death threads be placed in this category?
By daemun 2013-01-21 17:20:24
Well it's the kind of news you get when nothing important happens :< i rather read something interesting.. The only thing we're discussing in here now is why people consider it spam, cause there's nothing else to discuss about it ._. yay kitty i guess If 5 different people would have posted all the exact same threads, not a single issue would have arisen. It is merely because one person put all threads into rotation in quick succession.
Will celebrity death threads be placed in this category? I had a snarky comment for this, but it was rather crass. Quite disrespectful as well.
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Cerberus.Tikal
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By Cerberus.Tikal 2013-01-21 17:20:55
I'm honestly surprised I don't get more negativity on here. My only saving grace is I try quite hard to always respond courteously with as much thought put into my rebuttals as possible. I'm not surprised. You list exactly why in your own post.
Valefor.Sehachan
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2013-01-21 17:21:05
I propose a stickied Useless News thread.
At least this way we can share silly dumb things and not have to clog up the forum submenus and categories.
Will celebrity death threads be placed in this category? Real ones or the weekly X is dead and it turns out it wasn't true?
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Bismarck.Ihina
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By Bismarck.Ihina 2013-01-21 17:21:45
There's never a reason NOT to post cat news.
By daemun 2013-01-21 17:22:45
I'm honestly surprised I don't get more negativity on here. My only saving grace is I try quite hard to always respond courteously with as much thought put into my rebuttals as possible. I'm not surprised. You list exactly why in your own post. Yes, but my opinions and beliefs still are misaligned greatly from the vast majority of these boards. I get less flak than people who are far less extremist than I in said ideals.
Maybe it's just because I've survived the fight and they figured out I won't be ran off?
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By Odin.Headstrong 2013-01-21 17:23:06
Well it's the kind of news you get when nothing important happens :< i rather read something interesting.. The only thing we're discussing in here now is why people consider it spam, cause there's nothing else to discuss about it ._. yay kitty i guess If 5 different people would have posted all the exact same threads, not a single issue would have arisen. It is merely because one person put all threads into rotation in quick succession. I'd prolly just have ignored it then, but would still be wondering why people post stuff like this :P
Actually like the idea of the useless news thread x3
Cerberus.Tikal
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By Cerberus.Tikal 2013-01-21 17:25:07
It's attitude, not content.
I may be speaking only for myself, but I know at least four or five people who'd echo it.
By Aeyela 2013-01-21 17:26:13
My problem with that idea is a lot of threads provoke pages and pages of conversation. With dozens of topics in one thread, they get mixed up, it's harder to follow the general train of discussion and it's a pain in the arse to backread.
I can see a general news thread being the same as the general FFXI question thread. Whilst I appreciate the idea behind that thread I would prefer having different topics to search and read through depending on what I'm looking for. We have forum categories for a reason, right? Seems silly to force every topic into one thread.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2013-01-21 17:27:31
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Shiva.Paulu
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By Shiva.Paulu 2013-01-21 17:31:21
Not impressed. It's been done before.
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2013-01-21 17:47:27
I wonder how many Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson threads it'd take for me to get banned.
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By Phoenix.Amandarius 2013-01-21 17:50:54
It's attitude, not content.
I may be speaking only for myself, but I know at least four or five people who'd echo it. Four or five? Oh my God that's like everybody!
Caitsith.Zahrah
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2013-01-21 17:52:19
Lakshmi.Sparthosx said: »I wonder how many Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson threads it'd take for me to get banned.
Having incredible deja vu here now. Thank you.
Hmmm? There were some?
Cerberus.Tikal
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By Cerberus.Tikal 2013-01-21 17:54:50
Phoenix.Amandarius said: »It's attitude, not content.
I may be speaking only for myself, but I know at least four or five people who'd echo it. Four or five? Oh my God that's like everybody! You in particular seem to have an issue with the premise of this word.
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By Fenrir.Weakness 2013-01-21 18:12:33
I'm confused... why is there so much drama over a cat thread?
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By Bahamut.Baconwrap 2013-01-21 18:14:07
Is it really worth making a thread over something like this tho? The strippers were a quick laugh at least <,< Hey if the 400lbs woman falling through the sidewalk got a thread so does the 200mile cat!
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Holly seemed to be an average housecat; her owners, Jacob and Bonnie Richter, say she had an easy temperament and took to traveling well when they decided to include her on family R.V. excursions. But one day, something spooked her, and she took off through an open door 200 miles from home. The Richters posted fliers and organized a search for their pet, but she was nowhere to be found. Heartbroken, they returned home without her.
Two months and many miles later, Holly came back to them.
She’d been living with Barb Mazzola and her family in West Palm Beach for a short time after making the trek from Daytona, where she’d disappeared at the R.V. rally the Richters had brought her to. Mazzola said she found Holly barely able to stand, weakened, and with wounded paws. She cared for her enough to get her back on her feet, then took her to a local vet to be treated.
“I almost didn’t want to ask, because I wanted to keep her, but I said, ‘Just check and make sure she doesn’t have a microchip,’” Mazzola said.
Sure enough, Holly had been implanted with a chip, allowing the vet to find her true owners after a staggering two months. Now, scientists are puzzling over how she made the long journey on her own. While some say it could be that Holly learned to follow her nose–keeping the ocean to one side of her and the interstate on the other–one scientist thinks it could just be that Holly is a natural survivor. After being born inside an air-conditioner, the Richters say, Holly managed to crawl out and adopted them as family, bearing burn marks on her belly as proof of where she’d been.
“You’ve got these real variations in temperament,” Dr. Marc Bekoff, a behavioral ecologist, said. “Fish can by shy or bold; there seem to be shy and bold spiders. This cat, it could be she has the personality of a survivor.”
Whatever the reason, Holly is now safe at home with her family because of it.
Image: Barbara P. Fernandez for The New York Times
http://www.webpronews.com/holly-the-cat-who-traveled-200-miles-to-get-home-2013-01
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